Instead we watched the end of Merlin, S2 (god, what a frustrating, incoherent waste of a series -- it has so much potential and it just doesn't know what it wants to be or care about creating a coherent world no matter how wonky and anachronistic -- note, I'm not asking for any sort of "accuracy" just for internal consistency).
Then we watched two episodes of Buffy which I continue to love. But wow that episode on cyberdating demons was so 90s it hurt. Jacked in?!?!?!?! Oi. It also had a lot of elements that reminded me of The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit from Doctor Who.
One of the things that amuses me about Buffy is spending a lot of time thinking about what the fandom must be like. At one point I turned to Patty and said, "People get that Gilles is, well, Gilles, right? They aren't writing lots of terrible fic about him wearing leather pants and being a dom are they? Because in Harry Potter fandom, that's what would happen."
Soon we can start Being Human.
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Date: 2010-01-30 07:00 pm (UTC)He's amazing.
Though I never really identified with him per say... I was too young (I watched it when it first aired when I was 12).
I'm glad you're enjoying Buffy. I haven't been in the fandom for a long time, largely because Doctor Who and Torchwood have filled the hole Buffy/Angel left when they ended and unlike most, I'm not a fan of the comic continuations - I suppose I should give them a shot, but Joss just isn't that good a comic book writer, imo.